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Sitting Room
Rooms F12, F18, F19 of the North Apartment range is to provide ancillary space for the Best Bed-chamber F1.
A Brief History
1635 Part of high status North Apartment. Early chimneypiece with Thorpe masons’ mark. Part of the 17C house forming a high status lodgings with important chimneypiece by Thorpe masons in F12.
1740s modernised with cornices and Venetian window on east wall of F19 (assumed Flitcroft).
Late 18C chimneypiece in F18a early 19C extension of service wing blocks the Venetian Window in F19.
1909 introduction of chimneypiece in F19 by Dunn and Watson.
1980 Proposals to subdivide rooms to contain en-suite facilities (not implemented).
1942 = Bedroom No.3
What's to do
Adapt as sitting room.
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